Subject: Language and culture

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Books under this subject

• The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker (1,212 copies)
• The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word… by Leonard Shlain (493 copies)
• Orality and Literacy (New Accents) by Walter J. Ong (458 copies)
• The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco (358 copies)
• Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson (268 copies)
• The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man is, How Queer… by Walker Percy (229 copies)
• Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society by Peter Trudgill (199 copies)
• Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music… by John McWhorter (174 copies)
• In Other Words by Christopher J. Moore (163 copies)
• English as a Global Language by David Crystal (109 copies)
• The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook:… by Henry Beard (81 copies)
• Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard… by John H. McWhorter (67 copies)
• English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and… by Rosina Lippi-Green (62 copies)
• Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of… by Nancy Bonvillain (54 copies)
• Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation by Michael H. Agar (52 copies)
• Beyond Words: How Language Reveals the Way We Live Now by John Humphrys (50 copies)
• Word Spy: The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture by Paul McFedries (47 copies)
• Slam Dunks and No-Brainers: Language in Your Life, the… by Leslie Savan (41 copies)
• The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev,… by Pam Morris (39 copies)
• Ancient Literacy by William V. Harris (36 copies)
• A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach by Barbara A. Fennell (32 copies)
• Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant (28 copies)
• Language, the Loaded Weapon: The Use and Abuse of Language… by Dwight Le Merton Bolinger (26 copies)
• Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece (Key Themes in… by Rosalind Thomas (23 copies)
• Les Langues du paradis by Maurice Olender (22 copies)
• Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College… by James A. Berlin (22 copies)
• Lost for words : Australia's lost language in words and… by Hugh Lunn (22 copies)
• L'italiano - Lezioni semiserie by Beppe Severgnini (21 copies)
• The Irish Literary Tradition by J. E. Caerwyn Williams (21 copies)
• The Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction (Language… by Muriel Saville-Troike (20 copies)
• A Cultural History of the English Language by Gerry Knowles (19 copies)
• The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of… by Michael Bérubé (18 copies)
• When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and… by James Boyd White (18 copies)
• Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New… by Jane Kamensky (17 copies)
• Phrasikleia: An Anthropology of Reading in Ancient Greece… by Jesper Svenbro (16 copies)
• The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and… by Michael North (16 copies)
• Languages and their speakers by Timothy Shopen (15 copies)
• On Language: Descent from the Tower of Babel by Rod Mengham (15 copies)
• Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking by Richard Bauman (15 copies)
• The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic… by Paul C. Bauschatz (15 copies)
• Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory (Oxford Studies in… by Bambi B. Schieffelin (15 copies)
• The Power of the Written Tradition (Smithsonian Series in… by Jack Goody (14 copies)
• The Living Principle: English' as a Discipline of Thought by F. R. Leavis (13 copies)
• Cultural Models in Language and Thought by Dorothy Holland (13 copies)
• Roadmap to Korean by Richard Harris (13 copies)
• The Official Sexually Correct Dictionary and Dating Guide by Henry Beard (13 copies)
• Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction : Socialization,… by Don Kulick (12 copies)
• Text and Corpus Analysis: Computer-Assisted Studies of… by Michael Stubbs (12 copies)
• The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to… by Bruce R. Smith (12 copies)
• 101 American Customs : Understanding Language and Culture… by Harry Collis (12 copies)

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